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This place has the most incredible military aircraft collection ever to be found. Lots of amazing aircraft are in their collection; some of them were the fastest in the world. Also home to the only surviving XB-70. If you love aircraft then you need to visit this place, you could easily spend days here.

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When I see multi-millionaire athletes(celebs) taking a knee during the National Anthem in protest and/or disrespecting the American flag.. All I see is you disrespecting these brave men and women that served in the US forces all the way back to the Indian Wars

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Today, August 15, marks the 72nd anniversary of the announcement of Japan's surrender to the allies during WWII. I had the privilege of being able to visit ground zero of where the second atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. The Hall of Remembrance lists all the names of those killed. 2nd is the paper crane former President Barack Obama folded in honor of those who died. Following is where ground zero was, the Peace Park, fountain, and Peace Statue. May we hope to live in a nuclear weapon free world.

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DID YOU KNOW....(19)____________________On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was actually a secondary target. The primary target for Major Charles W. Sweeney and the crew of the B-29 'Bockscar' was actually the city of Kokura..About 96 miles (≃ 155km) northeast of Nagasaki, Kokura was a city of about 130,000 people in 1945, and the large arms factory complex (the biggest in Western Japan) situated there was the main reason why this city in the north of Kyūshū was chosen for the second Atomic Bomb mission. However, on the morning of August 9, Kokura was obscured, mostly by low level haze, cloud, and apparently smoke from the fire-bombing of the nearby Yahata Steel Works the night before; and thus the targeting could not be done visually—as ordered..The Flight Log recorded that: "Target was obscured by heavy ground haze and smoke.".Crew member Lt. Fred Olivi recorded in his Flight diary: "7/10 cloud coverage – Bomb must be dropped visually but I don't think our chances are very good.".Despite this, Sweeney made three runs on Kokura with the bomb bay doors open; the plutonium-cored "Fat Man" A-Bomb primed and ready to drop. But at no time could the target be visually acquired, and eventually Kokura was abandoned. 'Bockscar' flew on to Nagasaki instead, and at 11:02am local time, the "Fat Man" exploded about 500m above Nagasaki with the force of 20 kilotons of TNT..The artwork depicts the B-29 'Bockscar' of the 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, dropping "Fat Man" over Nagasaki, August 9, 1945..#WW2didyouknow#BombingJapanSeries_#Historybuff#Historygeek#Historynerd#Historical#MilitaryHistory#20thcentury#Military#History#Warfare#WorldWarII#WorldWar2#WWII#WW2#SecondWorldWar#PacificWar#1945#Japan#AtomicBomb#Nagasaki#B29#Bockscar#MilitaryArt#MilitaryArtSeries

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History echoes today. August 9th, 1945. America drops the second Atomic bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki. This came only three days after Little Boy was dropped in Hiroshima. The Japanese were still recovering from the shock of the first bomb, a weapon that left no bodies, only ashes, and shadows of people going about their daily lives on the walls that still stood where humans had gotten in the way of the Atomic heat, and Gama radiation. The ethic decision to drop the second bomb so quickly is still rightfully in question today. Whatever the case, the second blast was soon followed by total Japanese surrender, and a decision that Japan's warrior race would be no more, in hopes that never again would Japan bring upon itself such devastation. Perhaps Fat Man will remain the last nuclear weapon ever used in combat, but that had yet to be seen. Today, this Fat Man casing stands in a museum, filled not with Plutonium, but rather a Doritos bag, and a few discarded gum wrappings. #FatMan#Nuke#NuclearBomb#Nuclear#AtomBomb#AtomicBomb#BocksCar#Fission#Plutonium#Nagasaki#Fallout#America#USA

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#onthisday in 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. Pictured here is a print from our collections bearing the signature of Fred J. Olivi, co-pilot of the "Bocks Car" B-29 bomber that carried the weapon.

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Nagasaki 9.8.1945“I tried climbing up onto a small hill to look – all around, the city burned with what looked like little elf-fires, and the sky was blue and full of stars. It was a strangely beautiful scene.”Yosuke Yamahata (japanese photographer known for photographing Nagasaki the day after it was bombed)#Nagasaki#WWII#Fatman#Bockscar#AtomicBombing#NeverAgain

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The atomic bomb dropped to Nagasaki City,At 11:02 am on August 9, 1945 at the end of World War II,The US military dropped to Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki prefecture in Japan,It is the last nuclear weapon used in the real war in human history.

The federal government of the United States declared the code name of the atomic bomb dropped in NagasakiI named it "Fat Man".The formula name is Mark 3 (Mk.3) atomic bomb.

From Fatman's investigation, out of the population of 240 thousand people (estimate) of Nagasaki city at that timeApproximately 74,000 people died and about 36% of the buildings were burned down or totally destroyed.